Dear community, I've noticed that Flink has grown quite a bit in the past. As a consequence it can be quite challenging to stay up to date. Especially for community members who don't follow Flink's MLs on a daily basis.
In order to keep a bigger part of the community in the loop, I wanted to try out a weekly update letter where I update the community with what happened from my perspective. Since I also don't know everything I want to encourage others to post updates about things they deem important and relevant for the community to this thread. # Weekly update #12: ## Flink 1.5 release: - The Flink community is still working on the Flink 1.5 release. Hopefully Flink 1.5 can be released in the next weeks. - The main work concentrated last week on stabilizing Flip-6 and adding more automated tests [1]. The Flink community appreciates every helping hand with adding more end to end tests. - Consequently, the committed changes mainly consisted of bug fixes and test hardening. - By the end of this week, we hope to have a RC ready which can be used for easier release testing. Given the big changes (network stack and Flip-6), the RC will most likely still contain some rough edges. In order to smooth them out, it would be good if we run Flink 1.5 in as many different scenarios as possible. ## Flink 1.3.3. has been released - Flink 1.3.3 containing an important fix for properly handling checkpoints in case of a DFS problem has been released. We highly recommend that all users running Flink 1.3.2 upgrade swiftly to Flink 1.3.3. ## Misc: - Shuyi opened a discussion about improving Flink's security [2]. If you are interested and want to help with the next steps please engage in the discussion. PS: Don't worry that you've missed the first 11 weekly community updates. It's just this week's number. [1] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Flink-1-5-release-testing-effort-td21646.html [2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Flink-security-improvements-td21068.html Cheers, Till
